[image: bTUDGZRAcKZdXyO.png] We have a new community and would love if you came and checked us out ( ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙ ) A couple of us have been working on a project that took quite longer than we expected, but we finally have opened registration on our forum, and would love for you to come check it out if you are interested Our intent: We are trying to create a community focused on collaboration and genuine connections to create and make things with others. From software developers to artists, to handicrafts, and etc. We are working on a public wiki that can be used for creators to display and collaborate on each others projects that are openly licensed. We want to create a community that is different than the much of the fast paced, superficial communications that happen on modern day social media - and instead try to build lasting connections where creative people and projects can grow and contribute to the commons. From our “About Page”: An unfinished project is a seed that someone else can water when you no longer have the time or the tools. The community thrives when we treat every piece of unfinished work as a stepping stone for the next person. You don’t need a long-term commitment to make a difference. Whether you finish a single page on our Wiki or solve one small problem in the Forum, you are making a project “slightly less unfinished” than it was yesterday. We still have a lot of work to do to improve our platform (primarily our wiki - which is invite only until we ensure everything is working and in order), but we figured it was time to open up registration on our forum and see if we can get our few first members to help establish our community and maybe stick with us through a few more hurdles until we get everything more polished. If this sounds like something you might be interested in being a part of, and are willing to stick around as we polish things up and try to grow, we would love to have you I hope to maybe see one or two of you over at our federated forum! _PS: We will eventually be looking to “partner” with some other federated communities that share our values, so if you have a community that would be a good fit, feel free to reach out - as it would be great to have a network of communities that can support each other and provide value for the members. _

[image: 1W5yyEvd7kMTZsl.png] Preface: I know MediaWiki isn’t part of the Fediverse, but the community is intended to be two parts (MediaWiki/nodeBB forums) and the forums will be federated. I could not find any active communities within the fediverse related to MediaWiki or wikis in general, so I figured this community might suffice, since ultimately this community as a whole will be federated through the forum. Hello everyone, I have started on the journey to set up a community that focuses on open-licensed projects (open source/creative commons) where members can collaborate and network to help get their projects while contributing to a library of openly licensed projects. The community is two parts: a MediaWiki & a nodeBB forum. The idea is to have the wiki act as a hub to build/document open source projects, where individuals can contribute and help each other out in small ways, without necessarily needing to commit to a long term project - the community can work together to make small contributions to many projects to help the collective, rather then requiring individuals to formally commit to one or two projects long term. The forum is there to help people more easily communicate and network, and compliment the wiki as a collaboration platform/community building. This project quickly got over my head, as it started out as an idea to create a forum to try and build a community for building up my open source projects. But the idea expanded and is now evolving to it’s current state. I am figuring things out as I go, and have managed to get things mostly ready, but I have largely relied on LLMs and forums to get me this far. I am not experienced in wiki’s or moderating a forum. I have found 2 other people who were interested in the project, so there are currently 3 of us that have been working to get this community platform up and running - but none of us are experienced in administrating MediaWiki or its settings. The request: I am hoping to find at least one “MediaWiki power-user” who can ensure we are following best practices, not opening ourselves up to vulnerabilities, etc. If someone who is potentially passionate in what we are trying to create, we would love to add another member (or a few) to our team to help ensure we are prepared to launch the community successfully. In addition to setting up the community, it would obviously be nice you would also be interested in helping us moderate and maintain our community as we evolve. I don’t have any expectations for commitments, as this is simply a hobby project - whatever & whenever you can help. Note: this endeavor is purely a hobby project, and I am just one person who is trying to find a few others who want to help contribute - this is by no means a business or intended as a source of revenue. The wiki has registration closed at the moment, since we are still setting things up (be advised, some of the content may be broken or placeholder text), but if you want to check out more about our project to see if its something you are interested in: https://unfinishedprojects.net/ I hope someone might be interested . . . and if not, I am always open to simple feedback or suggestions if you have any, but don’t have the time to actually help with the project. If you are interested, please don’t hesitate to reach out, and I’d be happy to discuss it further and details about joining the team. I obviously want to be careful about who I hand out permissions to, but overall, I believe that the more people and experience we have, the better; as long as you’re a team player and want what is best for the project

Markdown… Mastodon… I like where this is going

Thanks. 85% for 2.0.0 is really good!

Gotcha, thatd be super neat

One problem with the whole C2S thing is you can easily end up in the Matrix/XMPP situation where some clients and servers implement some smattering of standards and it just becomes confusing to navigate and use. This is approximately the situation in the fediverse today, with Mastodon in the role of Gmail. The difference is that email has IMAP and SMTP, client protocols that are not only standardized but universally adopted. Every email server implements them and every email client expects them. Tuta has entered the chat.

For the record, I believe feddit.org goes far beyond the legal requirements with respect to zionist hate speech.

So defederation just means we block some of instances

Yeah. He hasn’t let up even a little bit. Seems he’s my new pet!

since it started I have not seen any posts except for its general meta one. no idea why. People have made some pretty severe claims about the place.

Since I am on a single user instance, the instance receives only stuff from the communities I subscribe to. This means that I just select what I am interested in. So far after over 1 year I never seen a single “dangerous” piece of stuff, so I think the risk is a bit overstated. The downside is that my “all/everything” feed is identical to my subscribed feed, bummer.

Ah so it’s about moving away from Lemmy and back to Reddit for example?

This is how federation was sold to me But did you pay anything for it?

Devs are the creators… What the public gets is down stream from their work

Post things people didn’t want to hear, that’s it.

I think not? Which is kind of a drawback to the fediverse. You gotta be careful what you post cause it’s probably gonna be somewhere forever. I could be wrong though

They’re both dumb ideas. That’s the point.

Is this anything more than shared bookmarks?

They aren’t fediverse-first, and they’re French-based/French-focused/French-language-only, but Blast is an online, video-first news station that hosts their own peertube instance (https://video.blast-info.fr/) where they upload everything as well as putting their videos on YouTube. They also have a mastodon account where they share everything they publish: https://mamot.fr/@blast_info. So, it’s definitely possible to have news on the fediverse, but I don’t think we’re at a point where it can be exclusively on the fedi - even if the stations’ website is ActivityPub-enabled, the majority of the people that a news station would want to reach just aren’t browsing the fediverse, let alone have accounts here.

I think topics and public feeds serve that role